S. S. Glidden Has Passed Away
Dies at the Aitkin Hospital on Friday Morning Last.
Sylvester S. Glidden of Bennettville, one of the old pioneers of Aitkin county, and also an old veteran, passed away at the local hospital on Friday morning last, at the age of 64 years. Mr. Glidden had been seriously ill only a short time, and on Wednesday of last week it was thought advisable to bring him to the hospital, but he only lived a couple days after being brought in. Asthma and a complication of diseases is said to have been the cause of his death.
The remains were taken to the Methodist church on Saturday afternoon, escorted by a guard of honor of the Sons of Veterans, and followed by a large number of old veterans and other friends, where the Grand Army services for the dead were conducted by Commander Harrison of Gen. Sumner Post, the deceased being a member of this post. The pall-bearers were six comrades of the dead soldier.
After the services the remains were taken to Bennettville, where on Sunday funeral services were held, which were attended by the neighbors and friends among whom the deceased had mingled for many years.
Mr. Glidden had not only seen service in the civil war, but he was with General Sibley in the stirring campaign against the Indians in 1862, and was a participant in the battle of Birch Coulie, which was one of the noted engagements of the Indian outbreak. On the 31st of August, 1862, Col. Sibley detailed a force of soldiers to form a burial party, with instructions to bury the dead bodies of those who could be found who had been killed by the Indians, and Mr. Glidden was a member of this detail, which numbered one hundred and fifty men, with ninety-six horses. The first day out they buried fifty bodies and the next and equal number. They were likewise engaged on the third day, and on the morning of the fourth day, just before dawn, while encamped at Birch Coulie, they were surprised and attacked by over two hundred Indians. At the first fire of the Indians twenty soldiers were slain and fifty were wounded. Numerous horses were also killed, and those were used to form breastworks for the remainder of the living. The soldiers made a stubborn resistance and held out until relief came from Fort Ridgeley, sixteen miles away. The shooting had been heard at the fort and two hundred soldiers were sent to the assistance of the brave little band battling against such odds. The soldiers engaged in this battle were without food or water for over forty hours, and were each reduced to five rounds of ammunition and could not have held out very much longer. They had all prepared themselves to die, but determined to sell their lives as dearly as possible, and their relief and joy may be better imagined than described when they were unexpectedly rescued.
Mr. Glidden was the father of six children, two daughters and four sons. Five of them living, a daughter having died when one and a half years old. Mrs. Glidden, 60, is left to mourn the taking of the sharer of her joys and sorrows. The surviving children are Mrs. Louis Lemire, Ulyssis, Eugene, Harry and Lyman Glidden.
The Republican joined the friends in deploring the passing to the deceased and in tendering sympathy to the sorrowing widow and children.
Front page of the Aitkin Republican, Vol. XV. No. 22.
Possibly published 14 Dec 1908
Dies at the Aitkin Hospital on Friday Morning Last.
Sylvester S. Glidden of Bennettville, one of the old pioneers of Aitkin county, and also an old veteran, passed away at the local hospital on Friday morning last, at the age of 64 years. Mr. Glidden had been seriously ill only a short time, and on Wednesday of last week it was thought advisable to bring him to the hospital, but he only lived a couple days after being brought in. Asthma and a complication of diseases is said to have been the cause of his death.
The remains were taken to the Methodist church on Saturday afternoon, escorted by a guard of honor of the Sons of Veterans, and followed by a large number of old veterans and other friends, where the Grand Army services for the dead were conducted by Commander Harrison of Gen. Sumner Post, the deceased being a member of this post. The pall-bearers were six comrades of the dead soldier.
After the services the remains were taken to Bennettville, where on Sunday funeral services were held, which were attended by the neighbors and friends among whom the deceased had mingled for many years.
Mr. Glidden had not only seen service in the civil war, but he was with General Sibley in the stirring campaign against the Indians in 1862, and was a participant in the battle of Birch Coulie, which was one of the noted engagements of the Indian outbreak. On the 31st of August, 1862, Col. Sibley detailed a force of soldiers to form a burial party, with instructions to bury the dead bodies of those who could be found who had been killed by the Indians, and Mr. Glidden was a member of this detail, which numbered one hundred and fifty men, with ninety-six horses. The first day out they buried fifty bodies and the next and equal number. They were likewise engaged on the third day, and on the morning of the fourth day, just before dawn, while encamped at Birch Coulie, they were surprised and attacked by over two hundred Indians. At the first fire of the Indians twenty soldiers were slain and fifty were wounded. Numerous horses were also killed, and those were used to form breastworks for the remainder of the living. The soldiers made a stubborn resistance and held out until relief came from Fort Ridgeley, sixteen miles away. The shooting had been heard at the fort and two hundred soldiers were sent to the assistance of the brave little band battling against such odds. The soldiers engaged in this battle were without food or water for over forty hours, and were each reduced to five rounds of ammunition and could not have held out very much longer. They had all prepared themselves to die, but determined to sell their lives as dearly as possible, and their relief and joy may be better imagined than described when they were unexpectedly rescued.
Mr. Glidden was the father of six children, two daughters and four sons. Five of them living, a daughter having died when one and a half years old. Mrs. Glidden, 60, is left to mourn the taking of the sharer of her joys and sorrows. The surviving children are Mrs. Louis Lemire, Ulyssis, Eugene, Harry and Lyman Glidden.
The Republican joined the friends in deploring the passing to the deceased and in tendering sympathy to the sorrowing widow and children.
Front page of the Aitkin Republican, Vol. XV. No. 22.
Possibly published 14 Dec 1908
S. S. Glidden Has Passed Away
Dies at the Aitkin Hospital on Friday Morning Last.
Sylvester S. Glidden of Bennettville, one of the old pioneers of Aitkin county, and also an old veteran, passed away at the local hospital on Friday morning last, at the age of 64 years. Mr. Glidden had been seriously ill only a short time, and on Wednesday of last week it was thought advisable to bring him to the hospital, but he only lived a couple days after being brought in. Asthma and a complication of diseases is said to have been the cause of his death.
The remains were taken to the Methodist church on Saturday afternoon, escorted by a guard of honor of the Sons of Veterans, and followed by a large number of old veterans and other friends, where the Grand Army services for the dead were conducted by Commander Harrison of Gen. Sumner Post, the deceased being a member of this post. The pall-bearers were six comrades of the dead soldier.
After the services the remains were taken to Bennettville, where on Sunday funeral services were held, which were attended by the neighbors and friends among whom the deceased had mingled for many years.
Mr. Glidden had not only seen service in the civil war, but he was with General Sibley in the stirring campaign against the Indians in 1862, and was a participant in the battle of Birch Coulie, which was one of the noted engagements of the Indian outbreak. On the 31st of August, 1862, Col. Sibley detailed a force of soldiers to form a burial party, with instructions to bury the dead bodies of those who could be found who had been killed by the Indians, and Mr. Glidden was a member of this detail, which numbered one hundred and fifty men, with ninety-six horses. The first day out they buried fifty bodies and the next and equal number. They were likewise engaged on the third day, and on the morning of the fourth day, just before dawn, while encamped at Birch Coulie, they were surprised and attacked by over two hundred Indians. At the first fire of the Indians twenty soldiers were slain and fifty were wounded. Numerous horses were also killed, and those were used to form breastworks for the remainder of the living. The soldiers made a stubborn resistance and held out until relief came from Fort Ridgeley, sixteen miles away. The shooting had been heard at the fort and two hundred soldiers were sent to the assistance of the brave little band battling against such odds. The soldiers engaged in this battle were without food or water for over forty hours, and were each reduced to five rounds of ammunition and could not have held out very much longer. They had all prepared themselves to die, but determined to sell their lives as dearly as possible, and their relief and joy may be better imagined than described when they were unexpectedly rescued.
Mr. Glidden was the father of six children, two daughters and four sons. Five of them living, a daughter having died when one and a half years old. Mrs. Glidden, 60, is left to mourn the taking of the sharer of her joys and sorrows. The surviving children are Mrs. Louis Lemire, Ulyssis, Eugene, Harry and Lyman Glidden.
The Republican joined the friends in deploring the passing to the deceased and in tendering sympathy to the sorrowing widow and children.
Front page of the Aitkin Republican, Vol. XV. No. 22.
Possibly published 14 Dec 1908
Dies at the Aitkin Hospital on Friday Morning Last.
Sylvester S. Glidden of Bennettville, one of the old pioneers of Aitkin county, and also an old veteran, passed away at the local hospital on Friday morning last, at the age of 64 years. Mr. Glidden had been seriously ill only a short time, and on Wednesday of last week it was thought advisable to bring him to the hospital, but he only lived a couple days after being brought in. Asthma and a complication of diseases is said to have been the cause of his death.
The remains were taken to the Methodist church on Saturday afternoon, escorted by a guard of honor of the Sons of Veterans, and followed by a large number of old veterans and other friends, where the Grand Army services for the dead were conducted by Commander Harrison of Gen. Sumner Post, the deceased being a member of this post. The pall-bearers were six comrades of the dead soldier.
After the services the remains were taken to Bennettville, where on Sunday funeral services were held, which were attended by the neighbors and friends among whom the deceased had mingled for many years.
Mr. Glidden had not only seen service in the civil war, but he was with General Sibley in the stirring campaign against the Indians in 1862, and was a participant in the battle of Birch Coulie, which was one of the noted engagements of the Indian outbreak. On the 31st of August, 1862, Col. Sibley detailed a force of soldiers to form a burial party, with instructions to bury the dead bodies of those who could be found who had been killed by the Indians, and Mr. Glidden was a member of this detail, which numbered one hundred and fifty men, with ninety-six horses. The first day out they buried fifty bodies and the next and equal number. They were likewise engaged on the third day, and on the morning of the fourth day, just before dawn, while encamped at Birch Coulie, they were surprised and attacked by over two hundred Indians. At the first fire of the Indians twenty soldiers were slain and fifty were wounded. Numerous horses were also killed, and those were used to form breastworks for the remainder of the living. The soldiers made a stubborn resistance and held out until relief came from Fort Ridgeley, sixteen miles away. The shooting had been heard at the fort and two hundred soldiers were sent to the assistance of the brave little band battling against such odds. The soldiers engaged in this battle were without food or water for over forty hours, and were each reduced to five rounds of ammunition and could not have held out very much longer. They had all prepared themselves to die, but determined to sell their lives as dearly as possible, and their relief and joy may be better imagined than described when they were unexpectedly rescued.
Mr. Glidden was the father of six children, two daughters and four sons. Five of them living, a daughter having died when one and a half years old. Mrs. Glidden, 60, is left to mourn the taking of the sharer of her joys and sorrows. The surviving children are Mrs. Louis Lemire, Ulyssis, Eugene, Harry and Lyman Glidden.
The Republican joined the friends in deploring the passing to the deceased and in tendering sympathy to the sorrowing widow and children.
Front page of the Aitkin Republican, Vol. XV. No. 22.
Possibly published 14 Dec 1908
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